I spent about two weeks in the early 90s with an unholy collection of DOS, 386BSD and Minix futzing together a bootable linux system on a 386/25 with 1M of memo

I spent about two weeks in the early 90s with an unholy collection of DOS, 386BSD and Minix futzing together a bootable linux system on a 386/25 with 1M of memory. A couple months later someone told me about this thing called "SLS." I am definitely a fan of a decent distro. But yes... building Linux from scratch can be very educational. It's probably a right of passage for jedi geeks: LFS, designing and spinning your own SBC, using wireshark/ethereal to debug a borked Cisco router. Sadly, I still remember much more about LILO than I ever learned about Grub.